Tyler v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
622 F.2d 172 · 1980
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
June 1984
most recently cited
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Morissette v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A rational fact finder could conclude that firing a pistol into a crowd of people evidences an intent to kill or do great bodily harm to more than one of those assembled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tyler v. Phelps“a lack of knowledge by trial counsel that the actions of the trial judge constituted a due process violation is sufficient cause for failure to object,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Honeycutt v. Mahoney“a sane person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.